Senior Director, Talent Acquisition

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the global talent acquisition strategy and operational plan, ensuring an effective balance of speed, quality, and cost across a high volume of requisitions.

• Lead and nurture a streamlined team of recruiters and sourcers in North America and India.

• Establish and oversee recruiting KPIs, which include time to fill, pipeline health, offer acceptance rates, quality of hire, hiring manager satisfaction, and recruiter productivity.

• Implement and leverage AI technologies in sourcing, screening, scheduling, outreach, reporting, and performance analytics for recruiters.

• Manage recruiting efforts in the US, Canada, Mexico, and India, adapting strategies to local practices, compensation norms, employment regulations, and talent availability.

• Oversee relationships with agencies and vendors, working to gradually reduce reliance on them.

• Provide counsel to executives, hiring managers, and People leadership; facilitate intake and workforce planning discussions.

• Collaborate with Finance, People Ops, and Talent Brand on headcount planning, forecasting, employer branding, DEI objectives, and candidate experience enhancement.

• Develop the talent acquisition leadership pipeline and outline career paths and succession strategies.

• Conduct weekly pipeline reviews, monthly business reviews, quarterly planning sessions, and executive reporting.

• Manage the TA budget, which encompasses headcount, agency and vendor expenditures, tools, job boards, and events.

• Direct strategy for ATS, sourcing, scheduling, analytics, and recruiting technologies.

• Create scalable hiring practices, which include structured interviewing, intake standards, interviewer training, offer approval processes, and candidate experience initiatives.

• Lead during reorganizations, hiring surges, freezes, reprioritizations, and the integration of acquired teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in talent acquisition, with a minimum of 5 years in leadership roles within TA teams, ideally at the Director level or above.

• Background in fast-paced, high-growth, or dynamic settings with a significant volume of requisitions and a compact team.

• Direct experience in recruiting within North America (US, Canada, Mexico) and India, along with an understanding of the unique characteristics of each market.

• Proven ability to set performance objectives, hold individuals accountable, and provide coaching for improvement or transition.

• Experience in both agency and corporate recruiting environments.

• Demonstrable success in using AI to enhance recruiting efficiency and performance management, with measurable results.

• Strong relationship management and stakeholder engagement skills, particularly with senior leadership.

• Proficient in using an ATS and interpreting recruiting analytics.

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and adapting to changing priorities.

• Proven track record of building and leading TA teams through periods of growth and change, including the hiring, development, and retention of recruiting managers and team members.

• Experience managing leaders and managers, as well as overseeing a distributed team across various countries and time zones.

• Familiarity with managing a TA budget and hiring plan, including capacity modeling and agency/vendor expenditures.

• Experience in constructing or restructuring a recruiting operational model: team design, processes, tools, and reporting mechanisms.

• Experience in presenting TA strategies and results to executive and board-level stakeholders, and working alongside Finance on workforce planning initiatives.

• Experience leading a team through restructurings, hiring surges, or slowdowns while maintaining high morale and performance levels.

• Nice to have: experience in B2B SaaS or technology sectors.

• Nice to have: experience in scaling TA during periods of growth, restructuring, or M&A.

• Nice to have: experience in hiring for engineering, sales, and go-to-market positions.

• Nice to have: working knowledge of employment practices in Mexico and India.

🏝️ Benefits

• Performance bonus

• Benefits

• Other applicable incentive compensation plans